5/12/2011STScI-2011-1483.Galaxy NGC 4214: A Star-Formation Laboratory
The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy's... (More)

1/13/2011STScI-2011-0388.The Two-faced Whirlpool Galaxy
These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically different face-on views of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. ... (More)

1/10/2011STScI-2011-0189.Hubble Zooms in on a Space Oddity
A ghostly, glowing, green blob of gas has become one of astronomy's great cosmic mystery stories. The space oddity was spied in 2007 by Dutch high-school teacher... (More)

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11/18/2010STScI-2010-3890.Hubble Captures New Life in an Ancient Galaxy
Elliptical galaxies were once thought to be aging star cities whose star-making heyday was billions of years ago. But new observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)